Middle English

The Canterbury Tales is one of Chaucer's most famous writing. He wrote this in Middle English. The characters in the story were to tell two stories when they were heading to Thomas A Becket’s shrine and when returning home. During this period, we are faced with various characters who represent a person or degree in society during Medieval Times. The Canterbury Tales in the Age of Chivalry shows how women are in power and control of their own lives by displaying how each character in the story…

culture, and environment. I was so happy to come here because I wanted a better life for me, but I never knew all the obstacles I was going to face by leaving my country. First of all, my biggest obstacle was learning English at the age of eleven. My first day of school in Robert Finley Middle School was horrible. I was so nervous and scared at the same time because I did not know anyone at the school. Everyone looked at me strangely like if I wasn't a normal person; I felt miserable. When I…

After the Middle Ages, a time called the Renaissance came into action. This change impacted everyone whether they wanted it to or not. New ways of art, literature, science, and much more were born into the world. The people who were living in this time period had no idea at the time but, everything around them was evolving into new, better ways of life. There came a different view of the world and it transformed everybody’s aspects into something that can never change back. The purpose of this…

The Story of My Search As I began planning for the name research paper my English teacher gave me, I was not exactly sure what I would get out of it. The topic of the essay didn’t exactly speak to me because I already knew how I got my name and the meanings of it, so I did not know if I would learn something new. But as I began to research the meanings of my names, I realized that there is a lot more to a person’s name. In the first week of our research, we went to the library, and I used…

school’s statement of purpose. This paper analyzes the curriculum of Clement Middle School in Redlands California including its curriculum approaches and philosophies, as well as its historical, psychological, and social foundations. Lastly, an interpretation of the school’s mission statement is discussed and evaluated to consider its reflection on classroom and campus practices.…

Furnish’s English 9 Honors class on the first day of high school. She instructed us to look over the curriculum for the class, and as my eyes gazed across the expectations, I realized that the transition into high school would consist of far more obstacles than I had experienced before. After spending half a year reading Romeo and Juliet, writing essays, cramming in grammar, and having in-depth class discussions, I became more interested in writing than ever before. English 9 Honors set the…

Middle school is my years of development from sixth through eighth grade. I had spent almost all of those years at Blessed Sacrament School. During that time frame, I developed to who I am today through my teachers, my activities, my classmates, and my friends. These years became the building blocks of who I am and what I want to be. Middle school has been a phenomenal experience for me. Throughout my middle school years, I have had an array of teachers. I have had a set of four main teachers.…

authentic exposure to what life was like in medieval times. Before reading A World Lit Only By Fire, I had only been able to envision what the Middle Ages were like based on movies or shows on television I had watched, which most of the time were fictional or loosely based on a true story. Manchester’s book highlights the more morose happenings of the Middle Ages such as the massive loss of life due to unkempt living conditions, leading to the spread of sicknesses, the general unhappiness of a…

colonies by the royal powers. Glorious Revolution: The Glorious Revolution was a nonviolent revolution in 1688 wherein Mary and William of Orange overthrew Mary’s father, James II. In fear of having a Catholic rather than Anglican monarch, the English people requested for Mary’s intervention. The pair gathered a relatively small army of Dutch Protestants and moved in on England in November of 1688; however, there was…

The Late Middle Ages in Europe Around (1300-1400) B.C, a lady name Yersinia who was a foremost actor played a vital role surviving in ground-squirrel populations around the globe and was the cause of spreading plague due to her idea of killing the less convivial hosts. “The Plague did not kill off the Middle Ages, but Yersinia played a critical role in shaping its final act” (Dutton, Marchand, Harkness 299). The Fourteenth Century was a time when Europe was filled with calamities, severe weather…